New Data Helps Measure, Map Poverty’s Connection With Heart Failure Deaths

September 4, 2019September 4, 2019 Sharlotte Vise

Authors: Mariell Jessup, M.D., FAHA; Chief Science and Medical Officer, American Heart Association; Kim Stitzel, M.S., R.D.; Senior Vice President, Center for Health Metrics and Evaluation, American Heart Association

Preview: Poverty level is a county’s strongest socioeconomic factor associated with dying from heart failure and coronary heart disease, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

People Treated in Low-Income Areas Fare Worse in Blood Pressure Control, Some Heart Outcomes

July 31, 2019August 8, 2019 Sharlotte Vise

Author: Kim Stitzel, MS, RD, Senior Vice President, Center for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Preview: People who received blood pressure treatment in low-income areas were half as likely to control their blood pressure as people treated in higher-income areas, according to a new analysis of research trial data.

Rejected Or Abandoned Cholesterol Drug Prescriptions Tied To More Heart Events

July 17, 2019August 2, 2019 Sharlotte Vise

Author: Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, M.D., Sc.M., FACC, FAHA, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research and Chair of the Department of Medicine, Northwestern University

Preview: People whose cholesterol-lowering drug prescriptions are rejected or abandoned are more likely to have heart events than those whose prescriptions are covered. That’s the finding of a study published today in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Study Reveals Need to Close Racial Disparity Gap in Bystander CPR For Children

June 27, 2019August 2, 2019 Sharlotte Vise

Author: Raina M. Merchant, M.D., M.S.H.P., FAHA; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Preview: White children in prosperous neighborhoods are more likely to get bystander CPR than black children in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods, according to data published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Intersections Between Income Fluctuation, Heart Health, and Death

January 7, 2019August 2, 2019 Luis Macias

Author: Kim Stitzel, M.S., R.D., Senior Vice President, Center for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Preview: Now we can drill down to understand how life expectancy varies neighborhood by neighborhood, thanks to an effort that calculates life expectancy at birth for nearly every U.S. census tract.